Confusion reigned in the ranks of both players and affiliate marketers as the week ended, with the Golden Palace Casino affiliate program Casino Blasters sending out confusing signals that suggested the pioneer online casino could be about to turn its back on US players.

In a communication to affiliates, Casino Blasters and other Golden Palace affiliate structures said that as a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act the CasinoBlasters.com partner sites (Golden Palace Casino and its skins) will no longer allow gaming by USA residents.

The notice revealed the existence of a new entity, Golden Casino on a .com domain registered on 19 October to which US players on the system are apparently being moved.

"All USA player accounts from the CasinoBlasters.com family of sites have been transferred to GoldenCasino.com," the notice proclaimed, adding that CasinoBlasters and/or its partner sites are not affiliated with GoldenCasino.com.

"GoldenCasino.com has its own affiliate program, BestCasinoPartner.com," the notice advised, adding that an apparently unilateral decision had been made to move all affiliate accounts for US players to Best Casino Partner's system, using the same ID and password information. Affiliates are given until December 1st to effect the changeover.

CasinoBlasters will pay out all USA-generated affiliate commissions to November 15, when the new affiliate program will become responsible.

Early opinions from industry observers are that Golden Palace is preparing to bail out of the US facing business, but has formed a new entity to ensure that revenues are not lost, albeit indirectly.

Exacerbating an already confused and poorly communicated situation, some US affiliates who spoke to support centres were told that they could continue to gamble on Golden Palace indefinitely, whilst other Golden Palace group operations were already re-directing players to the new Golden Casino.com.

As we went to press this week it did not appear that Golden Palace has yet communicated the situation to the players.

Several sources informed that the Golden Casino.com operation is powered by a software different to the Playtech system used by Golden Palace. Playtech has announced that it will no longer accept US players at its licensee operations. Apparently Golden Casino is using Odds On software, which was reportedly absorbed by Vegas Technologies in the L&G group earlier this year.

As I've wrote somewhere else on this forum, I have been told by an "authorized source" that GP is leaving Playtech for another software (RTG ?) because PT doesn't accept US players anymore and GP is US focused.

It has a splashing "New Software!!" on Golden Casino front page. So it changes its platform.

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We as a playtech license have been forced to close access to US players, even so our lawyers were confident we would not face any legal concern as we are not based in the US and we have no USA citizen as board members.

We were set to go ahead accepting US players but Playtech has another approach, mostly due to being quoted at the London stock exchange which of course make it more risky for them to get involved in an international lawsuit.

Golden palace will have to close access to US players on the Playtech platform as well and were given some additional time to enable them to move US players to their new platform "golden casino".

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